Iron age myth and materiality [Elektronisk resurs] an archaeology of Scandinavia AD 400-1000 / by Lotte Hedeager.

• IRON AGE MYTH AND MATERIALITY An Archaeology of Scandinavia AD 400-1000; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; PART I A mythic narrative; 1 The mythic cycle of Odin; The myth; The constitution of primacy; Personification/Agency of objects; The underlying nature of reality; PART II Words of identity; 2 Written sources on the pre-Christian past; Early Scandinavian literacy; The Poetic Edda and the Prose Edda; Other Nordic texts; European sources; 3 Origin myths and political/ethnical affiliations; Migration Period Europe: a historical survey. 
• European national historyOrigin myths from the Early Middle Ages; Historical 'meaning' of the Scandinavian origin myth; Formation of a political mentalité; Material manifestations: Germanic styles in a historical perspective; PART III The constitution of 'otherness'; 4 Embodied in animals; Scandinavian animal style AD 400-1200; Animals in the styles; The figurative art; Animals in names; Humans as animals - animals as humans: hugr, hamingja, fylgjur; The snake; The eagle and the raven; The wild boar; The wolf; The bear; Embodied and transformative existences. 
• 5 Other ways of 'being in the world'Analytical categories and perceptual realities; Phallus, fertility and death; The power of penetration; Women in men's image; Gender images/identities; Betwixt and between: gold-foil figures on display; PART IV Materiality matters; 6 Commemorative places; Objects as agents; The smith in Old Norse sources; Gold in the Old Norse sources; Places for acquisition and transformation; Central places as 'centre of the universe'; Asgard: home of the gods; A 'central place' par excellence: Gudme on Funen; The coastal site of Lundeborg. 
• The cemetery of MøllegårdsmarkenGudme's sacred features; Gudme: the paradigmatic model of Asgard?; Cosmological emulation; 7 The cosmic order of landscapes; Hoards as ritual and economic agents; 'Tournaments of value'; Sacred topography; PART V The making of Norse mythology; 8 Knowledge production reconsidered; Epic poetry and historical reality; The enigma of Widsith; The topography of Widsith and the archaeology of Gudme; Widsith: a political narrative of the Migration Period; 9 Hypothesis I: the Huns in Scandinavia; Historical framework: the impact/blueprint of the Huns. 
• Archaeological framework: transferable cosmologiesArchaeological framework: Hunnic material culture; The Huns in Scandinavia: diagnostic features; Evidence of a new cosmology; Summarising the evidence; 10 Hypothesis II: Attila and the recasting of Scandinavian mythology; Ornamentation - innovation - migration: a hypothesis; The migration story and myths of descent among the Scandinavians; Embedded knowledge - Greco-Roman tradition; Attila's cosmological blueprint; 11 Stranger kings: intruders from the outside world; Notes; Primary sources, including translations; Bibliography; Index. 

• Iron Age Myth and Materiality: an Archaeology of Scandinavia AD 400-1000 considers the relationship between myth and materiality in Scandinavia from the beginning of the post-Roman era and the European Migrations around AD 400 up until the coming of Christianity around AD 1000 

Ämnesord

Fornnordisk mytologi  (sao)

Järnåldern  -- Skandinavien (sao)

Annales school. 

Cosmology --Scandinavia --History --To 1500. 

Iron Age --Scandinavia. 

Material culture --Scandinavia --History --To 1500. 

Mythology, Norse. 

Old Norse literature --History and criticism. 

Oral tradition --Scandinavia --History --To 1500. 

Scandinavia --Antiquities. 

Scandinavia --Historiography. 

Scandinavia --History --To 1397 --Sources. 

Mythology, Norse  (LCSH)

Genre

Electronic books.  (LCSH)

Klassifikation

GN780.22.S34H4 2011 (LCC)

948.01 (DDC)

Kb.2 (kssb/8 (machine generated))